21st October 2009 Archive

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Samsung buys into Fusion-io

Some vertical integration going on

Fusion-io has taken a cash investment from NAND chip leader Samsung, strengthening an existing chip supply relationship. Fusion-io makes the PCIe-connnected ioDrive, a NAND solid state storage module that fits inside a server and can be used as a solid state drive (SSD) to store data for a long time, or as a cache to store …

Enterprise 21 Oct 08:59
Red Hat enjoys fruit of recession

Hopes to dance on Microsoft's fresh interoperability grave

Red Hat is still looking to expand beyond its traditional market of tech-savvy companies into a more mainstream world nearly a year after the open source vendor first declared its intentions to woo conservative customers away from rivals Microsoft and Oracle. According to the company's EMEA boss, Werner Knoblich, who spoke to …

Software & Security 21 Oct 09:03
Quantum downsizes DXi deduplication boxes

Five for the channel

Quantum has downsized its enterprise DXi7500 deduplication product to the mid-range DXi6500, and given it Nehalem processing power and solid state storage. The DXi7500 is a high-end deduplication product offering both in-line deduplication as data lands on the device or post-process deduplication after data has landed. The …

Enterprise 21 Oct 12:34
Seagate pushes SSDs as part of recovery drive

Revenues slump, but profits rise in Q1

Seagate's first 2010 fiscal quarter brought cheering news and a better outlook as its numbers continue to recover and it beings sampling its solid state drive with OEMs. Revenue for the quarter, which featured improving demand, was $2.66bn compared to the year-ago quarter's $3.033bn. Despite the $370m lower revenues Seagate …

Enterprise 21 Oct 13:58
QLogic gets another CNA kiss from IBM

Feel the power

IBM is double-dating with QLogic and its Fibre Channel over Ethernet adapters, in contrast to its less enthusiastic affair with Emulex. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has Fibre Channel data packets transmitted across an Ethernet network with the server using a Converged Network Adapter (CNA) which combines the functions of …

Enterprise 21 Oct 14:46
PC World punts Windows 7 £100 trade-in promotion

Windows 7 Struggling High Street retailer hopes customers will take bait

DSGi is betting big on Windows 7 sales with a special promotion clearly designed to convince more customers to visit the firm’s not exactly bustling PC World stores. From tomorrow PC World will be offering up to £100 off to anyone who trades in an old, working laptop for a Windows 7 machine. The High Street retailer’s …

Software & Security 21 Oct 18:02
Barnes & Noble mulls Android SDK for Nook reader

Blasts Kindle's 'clumsy' text-to-speech

Barnes & Noble.com president William J. Lynch has hinted the American bookseller will one day open up its Android-based ebook reader to third-party developers. But you have to wonder how far off such a move might be. "We haven't announced anything regarding putting out an SDK or setting up a developer environment, but we do …

Enterprise 21 Oct 19:11
IBM revs server control freak tool

VMControl system pool splash

As a maker of a diverse line of systems, supporting a number of homegrown and third-party operating systems and server virtualization hypervisors, IBM can either control all of these platforms and make some money or do the job itself. Which is why its Systems Director VMControl V2.1 tool was created and launched in July. With …

Enterprise 21 Oct 19:25